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- Jinxter -  
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Back in the days when games
were just beginning their uprise they didn't have fancy graphics or surround
sound. The text adventure or interactive fiction as they are also known
were the most comprehensive games around at the time apart from the quick
and dirty action games. The company most people know are infocom who made
some fantastic games but there was magnetic scrolls as well who altough
not nearly as high profile as infocom made some games that were very well
received. Jinxter is such a game and it takes the regular approach to text
adventure and add's some new stuff as well.
Though named as a text adventure you do get to see artwork throughout the
game, they don't animate and mostly serve to give a view of your surroundings
but it's a nice change from the text-only games that were the norm. You
start off the game in a bus and you're on your way home from a hard days
work but when you step out of the bus and pick up an item you dropped you
are about to be run over by a big bus. Frozen the only thing you can do
is to face death but luckily a guardian helps you out of the way and while
eating a sandwich hands you a document which upon examining looks like the
document in included with the game. Basically it says that there is a bracelet
created by a magician that keeps all of the good fortune of Aquitania safe
and it's been stolen by some witches and now the country and all it's households
are jinxed. To you comes the task of recovering the bracelet and saving
the country. Having delivered the message your guardian disappears and leaves
you standing to do your thing. He still bothers to pay you a visit if you're
in a clinch and saves your life so you can get on with your job, that means
unlike practically every other game out there you can't really die in the
game which is quite novel.
You'll get into a host of adventure trying to regain the bracelet which
has been broken into parts and you get to do things like snorkeling and
mousecatching before the game is over. Aquitania is a living world as well
and most people are oblivious to the dangers that are coming and try to
go on with their lives. To get their help you'll have to be inventive but
try to figure out what they want and you're sure to get their attention.
Some puzzles can be solved in more than one way though but the answer is
not always what you think. Others can be simply a bit of a chore like going
through a door even though you have the key with you, you must unluck it
then open it and then you can enter. Yes it's what you have to do but in
a game it's a bit of a chore. Other puzzles require you to WAIT in place
for a number of turns which is boring. There's also possibilities where
you don't complete a puzzle and you cannot go on later on in the game but
this is a problem with most adventures at that time.
Jinxter is a game with quite a lot of humor which is good because those
all too serious games are sometimes less fun to play. The fact that you
can't die is also a big plus. The manual is also nicely done and at first
glance it looks like a newspaper but it is in fact the game manual and has
plenty of humorous articles to read. There are some flaws with the game
but they are common problems with most other games. If you're done with
those old infocom games and haven't seen this yet or if you're simply looking
for a nice IF game you should definately check this out. All the versions
are mostly alike so just choose the one you prefer.
Overal rating: 8.5/10
Erde Kaiser
Jinxter was released for many different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1988. |
| Amstrad
CPC |
Released
in 1988. |
| C64 |
Released
in 1988. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1988. |
| Others |
These
versions are not available.
Atari 8-bit released in 1988.
Atari ST released in 1988.
ZX Spectrum released in 1988. |
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Date added |
Nov-12-2006 12:29 |
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Name |
Jinxter |
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Developer |
Magnetic scrolls
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Publisher |
Rainbird
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First released |
1988 |
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Genre |
Interactive Fiction
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Download |
Amstrad CPC, filesize: 343 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 297 Kb
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 621 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 616 Kb
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Links |
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Manual |
Download manual for Jinxter
, filesize: 1756 Kb
This is the scanned manual in pdf format. |
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Solve / Docs |
Get solve here
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